The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-02-26
and came to The United States In 1884 and
two wears later became permanent resident


70 all, aud Of the fines, integrity lie mar
ried Teresa MacKey, IN 1872, who died in
1878, leaving seven children.
friedrich wideman Of wsltham, died on
Monday evening, of old age, lie was born
in Lorraine, France, March %. 1908, and
came to this country in 1916 with his wife
who survives him. He leaves also five child
rem: Albert and Alfred in California, Euge ne
of Ottawa; Mrs, Eliza Hess of Utica, and
Mrs Alma Reeder Of Slreator.
Emmett j. Dougherty, young man of su.
perior mental and moral traits of character,
died after long illness, yet unexpectedly,
at 500 o'clock on Monday evening last. lie
had been confined TO his home, in West
Ottawa for several months, and especially the
last one, with lung disease, lie had been
better and worse from time to time, as is the
peculiarly Of sufferers from this disease.
On the day of his death he felt unusually
cheerful and had been receiving visitors,
Mr.. Bowman and DR.. Ryburn. AS they
were leaving, the doctors attention was
called by peculiar stiiiling cough by the
patient. He returned and found that the
poor young man was doomed, he having
broken q blood vessel. fearful hemor-
rhage of the lungs followed, and he died in
five minutes time. Emmett J. Dougherty
was born on Nov. 18th, 1865, and was 81
years and three months old. lie attended
the Ottawa High School three years, then
clerked in Gilleps store, then studied law
with Blake s Mo!opey, and Tor the past five
years had been employed in the post Office
under postmss,ers Bowman and osman, He
was member Of the Irish American Club,
Recording Secretary Of the Father Matthew
Society, and member Of St. COLUMBIA church
choir, lie was an exemplary young man in
all respects, and his loss will be mourned
by saddened relatives, mid tender memories
of his many sterling qualities.
lie WAS the second son of Michael and
Catherine Dougherty, and leaves two broth.
srs, Patrick and Michael, and one sister,
Mary, to grieve over the tomb of him who,
to them, was all that earth held dear.
The foral tributes to the deceased were
many and beautiful. The finer and larger
ones were: A beautiful floral harp with a
broken string from his choir an anchsr,
from his fellow clerks in the pos, Office; a
pillow with prettily arranged monogram.
from the F. NJ T. A. society.
The funeral, on Wednesday, last was very
large, and under the management of the
Father Matthew Total Abstinence society.
Miss Elizabeth b. F. Reddick, the adopted
daughter Of the late VIM and Eliza Reddick
died at the family mansion. in this city, on
Tuesday, %, aged As years, months and IL
days, Of catarrhal consumption, together
with chronic affection of the throat, which
mad troubled her for over twenty years. She
was born in COblentz, Prussia and was
brought to this country by her parents when
she was two years old. They lived near the
Fox River House where her mother died
when she was less than three years old
Mrs. Reddick, who was of a charitable dis
position, heard Of the little girls bereaved
condition and took her home. The childless
couple soon learned to love the little one
and adopted her as their own. They gave
her all the loving care that parents could
have bestowed upon their own offspring, and
in return her love went out to them in the
fullest Of childish tr ust and reverence, which,
as she grew up ripened into the respect and
devotion Of daughter to her parents. The
death of Mrs Reddick affected her deeply,
and the browning weight Of her misery WAS
the loss OF Mr.. Redlick, since which time
she has been oppressed with load of un
speakable sorrow. This was greatly rncreas.
ed by the worriment Of law suit which
threatened not only to have turned her out
of the home of her whole life, but in effect to
declare her nothing to her adopted parents.
She thought the suit if decided agains, the
will by which her adopted father gave her a
home for life, would in effect pronounce her
sponger of bOunties she had no
right to enjoy. That these reflections has.
tened, if they did not cause her death, is GER
tain.
Her remains were inferred in the Redlick
cemetery lot in West Ottawa, Thursday, after
appropriate funeral services at the house.
Her father died year ago. She is sup.
to have made no will. Her property will in
that case 30 to her brother, John Funk,
farmer living near StreatOr. He is a man of
moderate circumstsnc and has large fam
lily OF young children, and in every way is
worthy of the help her effects will be to him
and the children.
Amusements
On Monday, Feb. 18th, the opera house
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